Word: dimnet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest, Scribner's is conventional Christmas, with the exception of a disappointing analysis of consumers by Stuart Chase and an involved labor-N.R.A. tract by Benjamin Stolberg. There is intellectual nostalgia from Edmund Wilson, and then holly gets under way with the Abbe Dimnet, James Gould Cozzens, and reviews by William Lyon Phelps. Mr. Phelps, as usual, finds all right with the world; the Abbe has played forerunner by finding that God's in His Heaven...
WHAT WE LIVE BY-Ernest Dimnet- Simon & Schuster...
...phenomenally popular The Art of Thinking Abbe Dimnet showed how men could add to their stature by taking thought. Lest mere headwork make them top-heavy he now writes more roundedly of the manly stature he believes all men desire. Motive for that desire he finds twofold-"the longing to live happy and the dread of dying ordinary." This longing, this dread induce men to follow strange teachers, strange doctrines. Hipped on some, they hobble along on others. But the true pilgrim's progress is not forwarded so much by crutches as by a comforting rod & staff. Such...
...commonwealth of intelligent egoism has been built by the millions, and a skillful combination of the idealism of the few with the contributions of the many has largely eliminated from it all that might cause irritation and shame," there is plenty of cause for irritation and shame, says Abbe Dimnet, if a man will but take an inventory of himself. Starting with a detailed, impartial inventory of all his traits a man will soon discover plenty of Good work to do. Granting U. S. Presi dent Wilson's observation, "There is no more priggish business in the world than...
...winter speakers at the Harvard Union, including Cannon. Dimnet, and Bruce Bairnsfather, have so far been exceptionally prominent. George W. Russell, 'AE', who spoke here some years ago, will doubtless provide one of the more amusing evenings of the year. One who is interested in such varied fields as painting, poetry, sociology, and agriculture, besides being an ardent patriot of the Free State, is naturally an interesting speaker. Russell's charming Irish wit attracts not only those who seek to be amused but also those intellectuals who appreciate "AE" as the man who, along with Yeats, was a leader...